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Alusine Kabba
Professor Rodrick
QS 115 2:00
18 October 2016
Queering up your space
Every individual categorized in the queer community has a certain comfort zone in which
they are willing to exceed their space or personally stay within it. Our queerer identities are
defined by how comfortable we are within our own space and how comfortable we are with
expressing our real personalities and actions. Society has made it a bit easier to come out and be
socially accepted; even though they're still hills to climb we are slowly making a change in the
views and opinions of men. With in our space we the individuals of the community have to
figure out to what extent are perform space is whether it being as willing to perform and be
ourselves or us conforming to society. Space has given clear people in the area to either be who
they really are or take their time to adjust into coming out. It has shaped queer identity is in the
way of helping people get comfortable and it really just depends on the comfortability of the
individual to realize how their space Effects them.
"Queering space that involves a potentially extraordinary variety of events of
appropriation and transformation of straight, hierarchal spaces and the creation for the
proliferation of the new pleasures desires, subjectivities."(Gavroche, Oct. 3 2016). Creating your
own space is totally up to the individual who desires the space. It really depends on how the
individual feels to express who they are or hide their true selves. Once we realize how we feel
about our space we can then create, build, and as Gavroche stated, we could then begin to "queer
up or space". He explains how people misinterpret what is queer space and queer identity, which

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is wrong, but they work together. Identity refers to figuring out who you are while we are space
refers to you after you have figured out who you are; you can get comfortable and situated with
it. That is why clear space in queer identity is interrelated because they work together to help
make the individual as comfortable to be himself or herself as they can. Gavroche continues to
say how once you enter your space there should be no such thing as identity because you are
with in your own zone when it comes to your space. You shouldn't have to feel nervous or
uncomfortable in your space because it was organized originally for you and no one else.
"Gender, and the perspective, can be seen as "A stable identity or locus of agency for which
various ask proceed". It is instead " an Identity tenuously constituted in time-and identity
instituted through a stylized repetition of act" ((Butler, 1988 p.519) Gavroche,2016). But in your
space you can escape the struggles or embrace yourself with identity.
Though the community as a whole could be a space for something people, the community
exceed the shaping of identity. We the community already have struggled with figuring out who
we are, but once we do find out who we are we then get categorized by our own LGBTQ
community. I have already been kind of forced in to a category based on appearance. I am
considered as a bisexual jock because I am not your "stereotypical gay". I am a bit more
masculine compared to everyone else. I have even had occurrences when people would tell me
what " type of gay" I was because of my appearance

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Works Cited
Gavroche, Julius. "Struggles for Space: Queering Straight Space:
Thinking towards a Queer Architecture (4)." Autonomies. N.p., 03
Oct. 2016. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.